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Data Show Further Decline
In Drunken-Driving Cases

Drunken-driving arrests, court cases and convictions are falling in Texas, reflecting a big change in the way social drinkers look at drinking and driving.

In fiscal 1996, ended Aug. 31, the number of drunken-driving cases filed in Texas courts fell 5.6% from a year earlier to 79,314, while convictions declined 7.1% to 66,051. The tallies, from the state's Office of Court Administration, were published last month in the Texas Judicial...